Hi, just wanted to get an opinon on how you control your breathing when you strike. DO you exhale sharply, hold your breath (not tightly, just that you do not exhale), or do you inhale? I’ve hear arguments for all ofthe above in some way shape or form and would like to hear your opinions on the matter.
ALso, when you do your forms, do you breathe in and out through your nose or in you nose and out your mouth. Does it matter? Thanks.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity
–Maximus Decimus Meridius, General of the Army of the North, Commander of the Felix Legions
For Bak Mei, the general rule of thumb is to breath in between strikes, exhale with strikes, and when inhaling train the body to fight with as little air in the lungs as possible. That way in a sequence of strikes one will not need to inhale as much air to maintain momentum. Also will prevent you from getting the wind knocked ou in case the opponent hits you. Bak Mei will tell you the use the nose to breath in and out, touching the tongeu to the roof of the mouth (connecting meridians and preventing you to bite your own tongue if punched on the jaw).
Tai Chi tells you to breath out of the mouth because you don’t want positive and negative Chi going through the same path (create a circular path of air). Chen stylists also use two different types of exhale, one for blcoking which does not clear the entire lung and one for stiking which clears the whole lung. Hope this helps.
In taiji, or at least in our school/lineage, breathing is generally done all with the nose. However, in our daoist meditation class, you can breath out the mouth, so in taiji I usually breath in through the nose, and out through the mouth(with the tongue on the roof of the mouth, to connect the meridians, and if you get an uppercut, you won’t smash your teeth and bite your tongue off).
Inhale when gathering energy, and exhale when issuing.
I hope this was of some interest/help to you.
–T.S.
its been a while turd, hows the u.k? let me know when you come here so we can cross hands, you know where i am! dont be a ***** come to daddy, yes who’s your daddy…? im your daddy, because i did this to your mumma! yes hahahahahaha
why not post the answer yourself and enlighten us, i dont have to hold your hand all the time, do I ?
Just admit you don’t know and want FT to educate you. No need for the macho mardi gra act, you know you don’t know sh!t and so does everyone here so just accept it.
By “control breathing” it depends on if you are referring to practice or real world application. Breath control during practice and/or training addresses aspects of the art that may or may not be accessible in the heat of the moment. Just because control of these elements may be absent doesn’t diminish the fact that the benefits gained are still present.
Respiration control is one of the first things to shift into auto-pilot mode in response to sudden violence or extreme danger (Bladder & bowel control goes out the window at about the same time as the locus of neurological control shifts to the prime movers).
Many years ago in response to just such a question GM Mark Foon said something along the lines of “Breath as you do when swimming” (I can’t remember his exact words and his English wasn’t all that great at the time but that’s the gist of it).
The advice of not getting hit with your lungs filled isn’t really accurate. First, in a real fight you have little to no control over whether or not you’re opponent has the skill to drop a bomb into your body. Secondly, the focus should be on destroying (attacking) the enemy, not on self preservation. If you’re not willing to risk dying then stay the hell out of fights. The other thing is exhaling lowers the intra & inter body cavity pressure. This in turns lowers the overall neurological excitation level of all muscle groups in close proximity to any given body cavity, e.g., it now requires a neuro signal of greater amplitude to activate these tissues (greater effort & more time). Additionally, exhaling and then retaining a fair degree of muscular tension throughout the body greatly reduces overall coordination & rapidly runs the body into oxygen debt.
I have not idea what the other systems profess, but in SPM we prize “maximum accommodation” of forces in order to facilitate subtle & supple movements. Therefore, we tend to strive for a state of “dynamic relaxation” in all movement.
In practice and/or training, breath control plays a major role as the manipulation of the breath is a “gateway” for accessing, training, & fortifying a number of beneficial aspects of the human form, ranging from purely physical to purely mental-emotional. John
You had your chance but you conviently couldn’t make it.
The only thing you cross is your dressing ball breath!
Although at least you are admitting you don’t know anything,maybe there is hope for you after all!
I’ve got a good breathing exercise for you , breath in and don’t exhale, you’ll be enlightened soon after!!!
Come on F.T, you are that Yau Kunt Mun grandmaster
aren’t you?
The one with the deadly limp ging
I see that your students still take after you.
(the blind leading the blind)
ttt.
Oh THERE you are cloud 1! I was trying to remember sui-fuw’s lover’s name last eve…
I don’t think you two ladies ever DID say straightup what you do and you’ve never posted anything but BS… I seem to recall you USED to do BM and NOW you’ve upped to Wing Chun, so I BET you have FT and his boys just pi$ themselves in abject FEAR! HAHAHA!
The first 7-10 secs of physical exertion is completely anaerobic, and I figger FT could prolly dispatch a CLOWN ONE/sui-fuw tagteam in about 4, so you won’t even get a chance to do your secret “Hakka” breathing techniques!
fukbokunt,so you reconise b/s,i wonder how?keep figgering.you smell of cow crap…thats it.don’t seek fame,this will find you.
hey blowj#b,stop trying to poke my sh!t,and leave my organ alone.i’m not gay.
bubu,smarter than the average bear,go put your head up yogy’s behind[your sifu’s]thats the only k.f you’ll learn[bear crap k.f]
f.t[limp ging] i thought you want to kick my butt?
how about i draw a line down your head so it looks like a butt?cross hands?your more superior,being a grandmaster of cow dung.and by the way your quiet profound to say you’ve been ordained as a monk.
it takes more than that to buy chinese decorations and to shave your head,you fat bald pr!ck.
i realy have missed these banters.what say you cloud,ha ha ha
Gee, Seal F**ker, you really went off on that last post, you’ve got us shittin but the thing is really you made many promises of meeting FT in Hong Kong but you just couildn’t make.
Explain that one turd breath !!
By the way after just going over many of your rediculous previous posts I’m curious if you still believe YKM will die soon.
As it seems it actually is growing stronger all the time, won’t be long before there’ll be one close to you so you will get yo ass kicked without the excuse of us being too far away.
New York isn’t too far from you anyway so it shouldn’t be too long turd boy!!
Well, wouldn’t you know it! If it isn’t Sure-to-shits-all-over-himself and his Cloudhead gobbler!! Haven’t you guys all heard? They both have developed this new type of ging. It’s called skunk steals the fou chum. See, everytime Sure to Poop sinks his ging, he has a problem breathing and shits all down his legs and into his shoes.
Of course this isn’t a big problem because Cloudsuck comes to his buddy’s rescue with a towel and a tongue! Their next step in developing this unique hakka ging, is to go to Wal-Mart and work out a deal where they can get underwear and towels at a cheap rate. They already have the tongues for the ging job.
